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This week on our audio visual meanderings we go half Japanese, plus our regular update on what’s been going on in the arts in Liverpool Click
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NEWS
artinliverpool goes bilingual – We’re posting some blogs on the Japanese website ARTiT in English and Japanese – they used to do a printed mag but now only online. Spreading the word even further. http://www.art-it.asia/u/liverpool/ Penguin designs deadline this Friday (4th Sep) – Don’t do Mexican Wrestling Masks as that is my idea – ED
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AND – Full details of AND have been released – some talks etc. need to be booked (eg Talks with Nic Roeg and Ken Russell)
http://www.andfestival.org.uk
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Includes the Really Long Night – Thursday 24 September – Friday 25 September
24 Hour programme including an after-party for the Long Night from 10pm with music and dancing, live dance and an all-night cinema programme (bring your own sleeping bag!)
ROUNDUP
Mathew St Festival plus Unclaimed Photographs exhibition has closed.
Ian made it to the Jad Fair exhibition at Red Wire which is very good – they even bought one of his paper cut pictures.
Jad Fair : Automatic Vaudeville – 29 August – 13 September 2009 (Thur – Sun 1-6pm)
FILM DAY on Sunday 6 September, 12.30 – midnight (details)
Red Wire Gallery is delighted to announce the first U.K solo exhibition by acclaimed and increasingly influential American artist and musician, Jad Fair.
“There are plenty of performers who rock critics compliment by using the label ‘primitive,’ but few if any can hold a candle to the greatest American rock primitive, Jad Fair.” (John Dougan- All music guide)
Described as speaking for the idiot savant or autistic auteur in all of us, Jad Fair’s paintings, drawings and paper-cuttings exude an enthusiasm for a world presided over by a childish happiness, wacky adventures, mysterious monsters and a love for all things that is so rarely expressed with such sincerity.
COMING UP THIS WEEK
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VIEWING: Artist Teacher MA 2007-9
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WEDNESDAY 2 September, 17:30 – 20:00 Artist Teacher exhibition, a culmination of 2 years investigation into Contemporary Arts Practice. The exhibition will be available to view until Saturday 5 September 9.30am-5pm. Exhibition details
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VIEWING: Icons in the Picture
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WEDNESDAY 2 September 2009, 20.00 onwards at Blackburne House Madelaina’s back! Celebrating her Year in the Public Eye as an Artist with her exhibition: ‘Icons in the Picture.’ The exhibition is opened by the beautiful and talented vocalist Miss Laura Critchley. There will be entertainment on the night by cast members from ‘Brick up The Mersey Tunnels.’ Exhibition details
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VIEWING: Revolver – Gareth Kemp
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THURSDAY 3 September, 18.00 – 20.00 at The Lost Soul & Stranger Service Station (Old Barber Shop at the Bluecoat) In Revolver, painter James Quin brings together four artists for whom painting remains a prime concern, for whom the notion that painting has had its day has not registered on their collective radar. Whilst all four artists concentrate on disparate painterly concerns and narratives, what they appear to have in common is a fascination with the materiality of paint and the modes of image making. Exhibition details
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VIEWING: Ben Rivers
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THURSDAY 3 September 19.00 – 21.00 at A Foundation Exhibition by artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers. His work often explores mankind’s relationship with the wilderness, and with ways of hermetic world-making. Primarily shot on black and white 16mm film, his works are difficult to place in a specific time, depicting lives lived at the edges of society, or imagined landscapes populated with the soundtracks of old films and cinematic trickery. Exhibition details
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VIEWING – Donna Berry ‘Lest We Forget: Remember, impart but remember’
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THURSDAY 3 September, 18.30 – 20.30 at C.U.C.
A sculptural continuum of African, Caribbean and Black British historical lineage to present day; a collection consciously echoing a number of traditional African and Caribbean time honoured crafts, skills and materials while combining contemporary approaches and practices, laying bare the historical extraction and Diaspora of a Nation, to today’s Black British Culture. Exhibition details
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VIEWING: Umbrella – Hope University MA by Creative Practice Students
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THURSDAY 3 September, 18.00 – 20.00 at Milk and Sugar
Umbrella is an eclectic Art & Design exhibition by Liverpool Hope University’s MA by Creative Practice graduates. The presented work highlights the variety of approaches of this year’s designers and artists working in three dimensional design and fine art. Exhibition details
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VIEWING: =black smoke machine gun club=
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THURSDAY 3 September, 17:00 – 20:00 at Royal Standard Drinks and hotdogs will be served
Don’t miss the opening of littlewhitehead‘s exhibition, for which the Glasgow-based duo have radically transformed The Royal Standard‘s gallery space during their three-week residency, working in response to experiences and found items from their time in Liverpool. Exhibition details
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IN CONVERSATION: Andrew Bick & Alicia Paz – Slow Magic
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Artists Andrew Bick and Alicia Paz talk to Sara-Jayne Parsons, the Bluecoat’s Exhibition Curator about their recent work and participation in Slow Magic. Slow Magic examines different approaches to contemporary painting that are playful and enchanting. Featuring the work of six international artists, the exhibition will offer summer visitors to the Bluecoat lively and colourful show. Exhibition details n
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EVENT: Summer Exhibition II at Central Village
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SAT 5 & SUN 6 September 2009 at Central Village, Bold Street Times: Sat 10am – 5pm, Sun 11am – 4pm
This is the 3rd exhibition/selling event at Central Village for local artists. On display there will be Jewellery, Textiles, Photography, Illustrations, Paintings, Glass Work and much much more! local artist makers.
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OPEN DAY: NAPA Annual Exhibition 2009
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Open Day: SATURDAY 5 September 12.00 – 20.00 NAPA (National Acrylic Painters’ Association) was founded on Merseyside 25 years ago. Membership is national and international. Artists from England, Brazil, Portugal and Belgium will be represented in the show. Exhibition details
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FILMS: Automatic Vaudeville Film Day
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SUNDAY 6 September 12.30pm -midnight at Red Wire Automatic Vaudeville Film Day, coinciding with the current exhibition – Jad Fair : Automatic Vaudeville.
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FURTHER AHEAD
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EVENT: Urbanism 09 Propsitions for a Happy City from Artists, Activists and Architects
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THURSDAY 17 September 2009, 13.00 – 18.00 at St. Winefride’s and St. Richard’s School. n
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Talk to the bees, talk to the sky, drink tea in the floating Tea House, paint in the floating studio, explore the Feral Arcadia museum, make chutney in the Squash vegetable garden, take a swan pedalo down the canal and make plans for the Happy City . . . with David Bade, Ben Parry, Kerry Morrison, Squash Nutrition, Raumlabor, Maciej Kurak, Danilo Capasso, Muf Architecture, Public Works and Rob Sweere.
To book a place for Propositions for the Happy City from Artists, Architects and Urbanists on 17 September please visit: https://www.patronbase.com/_LB/Productions
The week also includes:
Friday 18 September – How to Design a Happy City Conference
– All Day event – £25 – Book here: http://www.placesmatter.co.uk/Urbanism09
Saturday 19 September – Water-borne parade
FREE
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